The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 1

When he awoke he got up to explore the island, and see if there were any men upon it; but though he found streams and fruit trees in abundance, there was no trace either of man or beast.

Who acts: he, men, trace · What happens: awake, get up, explore, see, be, find · To what, where: island, streams, abundance

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, men, trace), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 awoke	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 awoke	nsubj
3	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 awoke	ccomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 got	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 explore	mark
8	explore	explore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 got	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 island	det
10	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 explore	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 awoke	conj
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 were	mark
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 were	expl
16	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 see	ccomp
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 men	det
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 were	nsubj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 men	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 was	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 was	cc
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 found	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 was	advcl
26	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 found	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 trees	cc
28	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 trees	compound
29	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 streams	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 abundance	case
31	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 streams	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 was	expl
34	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 awoke	parataxis
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 trace	det
36	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 was	nsubj
37	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	36 trace	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 man	case
39	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 either	nmod
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 beast	cc
41	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 man	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	awake	past	he			tree rules
2	get up	past	he			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	explore	to-infinitive	he not said here	the island		vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent island=Location
4	see	infinitive	he not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be a condition, not said to happen	past	any men upon island		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	find	past	he	streams and fruit trees	abundance	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Topic
7	be	past	no trace either		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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